We don't think biomass burning is as foolish as biofuels policy - but we have major misgivings about biomass policy too.
He wrote that he could not enjoy the pleasures of the moment for anticipating what was to come, which he described as being about as foolish as a dog who dropped the real bone for its shadow.
To argue, when inflation is low, that low nominal interest rates make buying a home cheaper is as foolish as arguing that a loan paid off over five years is cheaper than one paid off over two.
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Dr Smalley saw off both camps, painting Dr Drexler's robots as foolish and insisting that nanotechnology was only a force for good.
The device he found inside struck him as foolish beyond explanation.
Though these do nothing to dispel the viewer's notion that he is angry as well as foolish, they hint at something he is keeping hidden from Wali.
It is simply foolish as a matter of policy, when we think about global competition -- economic competition that we face in the 21st century, to educate some of the smartest, most creative entrepreneurial young people from around the world in our universities -- the finest in the world -- and then not let them stay to start businesses, to launch startups to create jobs here in America.
What was once a sign of modernity and progress is now often seen as plain foolish and geeky.
But it would be foolish, as well, to be blind to the risks of enmeshing government with philanthropy.
But simply doing something because it must be better than doing nothing strikes me as a foolish endeavor or at least terribly risky.
Former boxer and Labour MP Paul Flynn described the decision as "foolish" and said it was not a step forward for female equality.
This seems foolish, as most of the people who can afford to buy a second home will have an adjusted gross income far above these numbers.
But Grant, as honest as he was foolish about business matters, had flatly refused to lobby for government contracts.
It would be foolish of us as a culture to miss the pain the Dr. Pepper soft drink is meant to alleviate during an era where traditionally male jobs are disappearing (construction, manufacturing) and there is increasing competition for knowledge work from women, as well as a general feminization of the culture (a topic too big to talk about in a comment).
Jewellers pay cash for stock, so it seems foolish not to sell as many watches as possible.
We'd be really foolish not to listen as closely as possible.
When it comes to communicating well to audiences and the media, there is nothing foolish about consistency, as long as you are consistently conversational and fluid.
People make foolish decisions with their own money as well as others'.
"We'd be foolish to pretend that everything was going on as before, " said Peter Villani, a lawyer who works in the global mining group of Toronto-based Fasken Martineau.
Still, the industry has thrown a massive amount of money into lobbying Congress and the regulators to postpone or soften the recent regulations, such as Dodd-Frank and it would be foolish to bet against them.
These conditions did not arise as a result of market forces, but from foolish monetary, fiscal, and regulatory policies that distorted market forces.
As it turned out, the best of these foolish acts, and the best told, was the one recounted by the tall, large man.
Grace Flint has a microphone the size of a shirt button, connected to a transmitter as thin as a credit card, that will relay any foolish admissions you might make to her from around the corner, or across the city, or from just about any place on earth.
"It would be foolish not to aspire to even greater heights, especially as the host nation, " said Lord Moynihan, head of the British Olympic Association.
The report's authors say that it would be foolish in the West to underestimate the competitive threat, as the track record of such fast-growing firms lays bare the potential challenge.
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It would be foolish, even a mere week ahead of a referendum such as this, to predict the outcome.
Marcus Aurelius' foolish son Commodus squandered the imperial treasury, and expenses skyrocketed as later emperors launched expensive wars of choice against family enemies, greatly enlarged their imperial armies and raised military salaries.
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